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Anniversary of Polytechnic uprising unites left against ND clampdown on gatherings
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor violation of public health measures. The police order further enraged the opposition... the police order revoked as unconstitutional. The court ruled that the restrictions on gatherings were... by representatives of all parties was rejected, with the signatories of the letter, who opted to hold
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Tsipras hits back with own economic pledges, choice for voters to ponder
PoliticsGreek Politicsand inflation crises which, after all, are the uppermost concerns in the minds of Greek voters..., as well as providing all women with 9-month maternity leave. Like Mitsotakis a week earlier, the SYRIZA... conditions – Tsipras also set out the resources on which he would draw from in order to fund his latest
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Parties clash on surveillance bill as PM insists he is putting national security first
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy majority had dismissed an objection lodged by SYRIZA with the support of all opposition parties... in order to destabilise the government, arguing that the public was more interested in the measures... parliamentary scrutiny in order to avoid answering the questions raised by the surveillance revelations. He
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Newsletter 402 - 17/11/2023
officials on purpose in order to force them out of SYRIZA so he can have more wiggle room in terms of who... is insistent, though, that SYRIZA needs a shake-up in order to rekindle voters’ interests. One... in the opinion polls, that all its actions to tame prices have failed. The authorities have made
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Sports-related violence on the agenda again as PM struggles to find response
PoliticsGreek Politicsreports suggest that the conservatives are considering the extreme options of either forcing all teams to play behind closed doors or stopping all sporting activity. Either scenario would not go down... administration’s law and order agenda. Mitsotakis has made law and order a key part of his political credo
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Flurry of bills due in Parliament as legislative work resumes
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor publicly-funded universities. However, all the opposition parties share concerns about Article 16... to trigger a heated debate in Parliament. Although it appears that all New Democracy MPs are on board... was brought back to the government department, once known as the Public Order Ministry, because
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Athens fears Middle East instability, joins others to push for change in EU's Syria policy
PoliticsForeign Policyof the European Council, in order to facilitate a formal discussion. The main objective of the initiative... in their letter they note the need for the EU to appoint a special envoy in Syria, “who will talk with all... for safe, voluntary and dignified returns of Syrian refugees and, above all, the review of the EU
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Newsletter 120 - 26/05/2017
with no deal on debt relief from Monday’s Eurogroup and now all eyes are on whether an agreement... to risk it all by turning their back on whatever deal is on offer on June 15. It is more likely that he... to be reached so that Athens can receive the next loan tranche of around 7 billion euros in order
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Some optimism for Cyprus talks but complex issues remain
PoliticsForeign Policyin the resort of Crans-Montana of Switzerland. Following almost a week during which all sides involved...), the problem is that the two sides do not seem to agree on the order in which the issues should be negotiated. It was agreed that on Monday all the involved parties, the three guarantor powers (Greece, Turkey
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I know what you did the summer before last
Agorathe threat of bankrupting the national health system with a mass order of neck braces, this about-turn... offence could be committed by the government planning for several eventualities. After all, it was a long-running joke in the eurozone that all the member states had a plan for what would happen
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